TrekBuddy

Ranger · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 6030

As I see you dream that someone should decide about folders names of yours maps ...
BTW, map folders names can be created from map files names, but only by hand now.

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5665

I'm not sure whether I'm using latest version, but there is a "bug" in TB Cutter: slices listing filename should differ from calibration filename only by extension. I have eg. C08_ozf.map, TB Cutter creates C08.set but it should be C08_ozf.set.

In 0.9.57, a warning will be shown if "set" file is not found for a map.

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 5013

The tool runs with wine + mfc42.dll (in ~/.wine/c_drive/windows/system32) on Ubuntu 7.04.

thx for that great tool!
hp5000

beyond005 · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 1

When I use TB Cutter to cut several big maps which great than 1G in windows xp sp2, it throws a runtime error and exit.
What's the matter?

wzab · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

Hi All,

As a Linux user, I was tired with having to use wine for TB Cutter.
Therefore I've prepared a small tool which is able to split a scanned map into tiles, and to prepare the .set and .gmi file (well, it is just a gmi file header, the callibration points must be added with another tool which is not ready to be released yet, but should be released soon).
My tool - pyTBcutter is written in Python and uses Tkinter and the Python Imaging Library. It runs perfectly on Linux, but should also run on other platforms where the above are available.

The tool is public domain. The code is very simple, and may be easily customized.
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Cheers, Wojtek

wzab · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

This is the calibrator mentioned in my previous post.
I've written it to recalibrate the OSM maps generated by the http://osm.bandnet.org/browse/ site (which currently generates incorrect calibration info).
My calibrator works only with the .gmi files.
After running the application, you should open the .gmi file located in the directory with the untared map.
The map should be displayed. You can drag the map with the 3rd (usually the right one) button of the mouse.
To add a calibration point, you should click it with the 1st (usually the left) button. A dialog box for entering of the coordinates should appear.
In the left side of the dialog box you will see the neighbourhood of the calibration point, and the calibration point will be marked with a cross-hair.
The coordinates may be entered either in degrees as float numbers (eg. +21.0032), or in a format with separate degrees, minutes and seconds fields.
In the second format the degrees field should be followed by "d", the minutes field - by "m", and the seconds - by "s". The sample correct notation: "-21d34m42.1254s".
After defining of all needed calibration points, you should press the "End the calibration" button. You'll be asked if you want to write the new .gmi file (It will destroy the old file!!!).

The pyTBcalibr uses the map in the tiled form and does not build the whole bitmap, therefore it should handle even the big maps quite quickly.
The source code should be relatively easy to understand and to customize.
The application is published as public domain.
However there is no warranty, that it will work correctly.
Maybe in some specific conditions it can damage your system... :-/
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Cheers , Wojtek

PS. I have corrected a bug in the pyTBcalibr, causing the button to hide, when the height of the window was decreased. I have also added the option to specify the .gmi file as the command line argument (I personally prefer CLI over GUI).

supik · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

does it work on Vista?? it seems to be doing nothing when I hit START...

thanks

supik · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

what am I doing wrong? I tried even on XP and when I hit start, nothing happens.. Please help

luki · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 142 Location: Milan, Italy

That program is written in python i supposed (and mainly for Linux system), you need this to execute it!

wzab · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

As far as I know (I very rarely use Windows), you have to install the Python on your machine.
http://www.python.org/download/
I have tried (under Wine)
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.1/python-2.5.1.msi
and it has installed the python succesfully.

Additionally this program makes use of some libraries, namely PIL:
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Again, I have downloaded http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe and installed it under Wine.
Only then I was able to run the pyTBcalibr (in Wine with:

supik · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

may be I miss something, I downloaded the windows exe version which was posted in the very first post of this topic. and this one doesn t work.. does this version require the procedure written above?? even though it s seems to be done for windows.. please correct me if I am wrong. thanks

wzab · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

May be I've missed something, but there was no exe version at all...
The original tb_cutter was published as a link to the ZIP archive.
My pyTBcuter was published as an message attachment which was the
gzipped Python source (which itself is a pure text file).
So maybe your problem is that you need a program to decompress the ZIP or gz file?
I think, that if you look for "windows zip gzip decompressor" in google
or other search engine, you'll find something.

supik · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

nadlabak · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4

The original TB Cutter link (http://www.volny.cz/duffa/tbcutter/tb_cutter.zip) doesn't work anymore - 404 Not Found.
May I ask anyone with a tb_cutter.zip copy to upload it somewhere?

Momme · Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 17 Location: nowhere

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